Explore 418 historical events from 1830–1839.
Luigi Tripepi was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and poet. He was one of the most important Roman Catholic apologists of the 19th century.
Luigi Tripepi, Italian theologian (died 1906)
Emmanuel Rhoides was a Greek writer, journalist, and translator. He is considered one of the most influential writers of 19th century Greece and a significant figure of Modern Gree…
Emmanuel Rhoides, Greek journalist and author (died 1904)
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was an English physician and suffragist. She is known for being the first woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon and as a co-founder and …
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician and politician (died 1917)
Joseph Chamberlain was a British statesman who was first a radical Liberal, then a Liberal Unionist after opposing home rule for Ireland, and eventually was a leading imperialist i…
Joseph Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (died 1914)
Camille Maximilien Frédéric, Count de Renesse-Breidbach was a Belgian nobleman, entrepreneur and author.
Camille of Renesse-Breidbach (died 1904)
Antônio Carlos Gomes was a Brazilian composer notable for being the first New World composer whose work was accepted by Europe. He was the only non-European who was successful as a…
Antônio Carlos Gomes, Brazilian composer (died 1896)
Vasily Alekseyevich Sleptsov, was a Russian writer, playwright, journalist and social reformer.
Vasily Sleptsov, Russian author and activist (died 1878)
Jens Vilhelm Dahlerup was a Danish architect who specialized in the Historicist style. One of the most productive and noted Danish architects of the 19th century, he is behind many…
Jens Vilhelm Dahlerup, Danish architect (died 1907)
Warren Brown was an American politician, historian, gentleman farmer, businessman, and author from Hampton Falls, New Hampshire.
Warren Brown, American historian and politician (died 1919)
Archibald MacNeal Willard was an American painter who was born and raised in Bedford, Ohio. His most famous work is "The Spirit of '76".
Archibald Willard, American soldier and painter (died 1918)
Francis Brett Hart, known as Bret Harte, was an American short story writer and poet best remembered for short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the…
Bret Harte, American short story writer and poet (died 1902)
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle was a French army officer of the French Revolutionary Wars. Lisle is known for writing La Marseillaise and it became the French national anthem.
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French soldier and composer (born 1760)
Nathan Mayer Rothschild, also known as Baron Nathan Mayer Rothschild, was a British-German banker, businessman and financier. Born in Frankfurt am Main, he was the third of the fiv…
Nathan Mayer Rothschild, German-English banker and financier (born 1777)
Marc-Antoine Parseval des Chênes was a French mathematician, most famous for what is now known as Parseval's theorem, which showed that the Fourier transform is unitary.
Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician and theorist (born 1755)
Claude-Louis Navier was a French civil engineer, affiliated with the French government, and a physicist who specialized in continuum mechanics.
Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist and engineer (born 1785)
John Littlejohn was an English-born American tradesman, Methodist preacher and politician. Born in Penrith, Cumberland, he briefly attended trade school in London before returning …
John Littlejohn, American sheriff and Methodist preacher (born 1756)
André-Marie Ampère was a French physicist and mathematician who was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as electrodynamics. He ma…
André-Marie Ampère, French physicist and mathematician (born 1775)
James Mill was a Scottish historian, economist, political theorist and philosopher. He is counted among the founders of the Ricardian school of economics. He also wrote The History…
James Mill, Scottish economist, historian, and philosopher (born 1773)
James Madison was an American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. Madison was popularly acclaimed as…
James Madison, American academic and politician, 4th President of the United States (born 1751)
The Republic of Texas, or simply Texas, was a short-lived sovereign country in North America from March 2, 1836, to February 19, 1846. Texas was bordered by Mexico to the west and …
Forces of the Republic of Texas led by Sam Houston defeated the Mexican troops of Antonio López de Santa Anna in the Bat
Francis Baily was an English astronomer. He is most famous for his observations of "Baily's beads" during a total eclipse of the Sun. Baily was also a major figure in the early his…
English astronomer Francis Baily observed Baily's beads (example pictured), a phenomenon during a solar eclipse in which
James Gordon Bennett Sr. was a British-born American businessman who was the founder, editor and publisher of the New York Herald and a major figure in the history of American news…
James Gordon Bennett, Sr
James Bowman Lindsay was a Scottish inventor and writer. He is credited with early developments in several fields, such as incandescent lighting and telegraphy.
James Bowman Lindsay demonstrates a constant electric light at a public meeting in Dundee, Scotland.
The "Great Moon Hoax", also known as the "Great Moon Hoax of 1835", was a series of six articles published in The Sun, beginning on August 25, 1835, about the supposed discovery of…
The first Great Moon Hoax article is published in The New York Sun, announcing the discovery of life and civilization…